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Game Preview: MIN @ OAK, 10:05pm, Monday, June 8, 2009 @McAfee Coliseum

Twins, 28-30, 2nd, 3½ GB, 5½ GB in WC

SP: Anthony Swarzak (23, RHP, 1-2, 4.76)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. OAK Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (1-2) 17.0 19 9 9 6 9 3 4.76
Last 7 GS 1-2 17.0 19 9 9 6 9 3 4.76 47
2009-06-03 CLE L 4.0 9 6 6 0 3 1 83 23
2009-05-28 BOS L 6.0 5 3 3 4 3 2 103 49
2009-05-23 MIL W 7.0 5 0 0 2 3 0 98 68
Has never faced OAK.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   21-12   Road:    7-18   ExtrInn: 3-3 
 vsRHP:  20-18   vsLHP:   8-12   1-Run:   8-6 
 vsEast:  6-16   vsCntrl:11-9    vsWest:  8-5  IL: 3-0 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 58 Sun, Jun  7  @SEA  L   2-4       28-30  2nd  3.5 gb
 57 Sat, Jun  6  @SEA  L   1-2       28-29  2nd  2.5 gb
 56 Fri, Jun  5  @SEA  W   2-1 (10)  28-28  2nd  1.5 gb
 55 Thu, Jun  4   CLE  W  11-3       27-28  2nd  2.5 gb
 54 Wed, Jun  3   CLE  L   1-10      26-28  2nd  3.5 gb
 53 Tue, Jun  2   CLE  W   4-3       26-27  2nd  3.5 gb
 52 Sun, May 31  @TBR  W   3-2       25-27  3rd  4.5 gb
 51 Sat, May 30  @TBR  L   2-5       24-27  3rd  4.5 gb
 50 Fri, May 29  @TBR  L   3-5       24-26  2nd  3.5 gb
 49 Thu, May 28   BOS  L   1-3       24-25  2nd  3.5 gb
 Last 10: 4-6    Last 20:10-10   Last 30:15-15
Athletics, 25-30, 4th, 7½ GB, 7 GB in WC

SP: Josh Outman (24, LHP, 3-0, 3.02)

2009 Gamelogs / 2009 Splits / vs. MIN Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2009 (3-0) 53.2 42 22 18 22 42 7 3.02
2008 (1-2) 25.2 34 14 13 8 19 1 4.56
Last 7 GS 3-0 43.1 30 14 12 16 31 4 2.49 58
2009-06-03 @CHW W 6.2 7 3 2 1 2 1 113 51
2009-05-29 @TEX ND 6.2 3 3 3 3 9 1 101 62
2009-05-24 ARI W 7.2 4 2 1 5 0 0 106 60
2009-05-19 @TBR ND 6.0 3 0 0 1 6 0 99 71
2009-05-13 KCR W 6.0 3 1 1 2 4 0 78 64
2009-05-08 TOR ND 4.1 6 3 3 3 5 1 101 41
2009-05-03 @SEA ND 6.0 4 2 2 1 5 1 87 60
Has never faced MIN.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch 
 Home:   14-13   Road:   11-17   ExtrInn: 2-4 
 vsRHP:  17-18   vsLHP:   8-12   1-Run:   5-10
 vsEast: 11-10   vsCntrl: 5-4    vsWest:  8-14 IL: 1-2 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 55 Sun, Jun  7   BAL  W   3-0       25-30  4th  7.5 gb
 54 Sat, Jun  6   BAL  W   9-4       24-30  4th  7.5 gb
 53 Fri, Jun  5   BAL  W   9-1       23-30  4th  8.5 gb
 52 Thu, Jun  4  @CHW  W   7-0       22-30  4th  8.5 gb
 51 Wed, Jun  3  @CHW  W   5-3       21-30  4th  9.5 gb
 50 Tue, Jun  2  @CHW  W   5-0       20-30  4th  9.5 gb
 49 Mon, Jun  1  @CHW  L   2-6       19-30  4th 10.5 gb
 48 Sun, May 31  @TEX  W   5-4       19-29  4th 10.0 gb
 47 Sat, May 30  @TEX  L   1-14      18-29  4th 11.0 gb
 46 Fri, May 29  @TEX  L   2-5       18-28  4th 10.0 gb
 Last 10: 7-3    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:16-14

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Sun, Aug 31, 2008 MIN 12 @OAK  4        W:Scott Baker (8-4), L: Greg Smith (6-14), S: none
Sat, Aug 30, 2008 OAK  3  MIN  2        W:Huston Street (5-5), L: Joe Nathan (0-1), S: none
Fri, Aug 29, 2008 MIN 12 @OAK  2        W:Kevin Slowey (11-8), L: Dan Meyer (0-3), S: Craig Breslow (1)
Thu, Aug 28, 2008 OAK  3  MIN  2        W:Joey Devine (4-0), L: Craig Breslow (0-2), S: none
Wed, Aug 20, 2008 MIN  3  OAK  1        W:Francisco Liriano (4-3), L: Dallas Braden (3-3), S: Joe Nathan (34)
Tue, Aug 19, 2008 MIN 13  OAK  2        W:Kevin Slowey (10-8), L: Sean Gallagher (4-6), S: none
Mon, Aug 18, 2008 OAK  3 @MIN  2        W:Kirk Saarloos (1-0), L: Nick Blackburn (9-7), S: Brad Ziegler (3)
Thu, Apr 24, 2008 OAK 11  MIN  2        W:Greg Smith (2-0), L: Francisco Liriano (0-3), S: none
Wed, Apr 23, 2008 OAK  3  MIN  0        W:Chad Gaudin (2-1), L: Boof Bonser (1-4), S: Huston Street (6)
Tue, Apr 22, 2008 MIN  5 @OAK  4        W:Juan Rincon (2-0), L: Joe Blanton (1-4), S: Joe Nathan (7)
Season Series: 2009 -  0-0; 2008 - Tied 5-5; 2007 - MIN won 5-2; All-Time - MIN leads 976-964

Key for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids on the next pageKey for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids Below

Batter vs. Pitcher totals are career totals. All others are year-to-date.

PA - Plate Appearances (AB+BB+HBP+SH+SF+CI)
BF - Batters Faced
BA - Batting Average
OBP - On-Base Percentage
SLG - Slugging Percentage
Last 28d - PA and OPS in the last 28 days.
SB/CS - Stolen Bases and Caught Stealing
HR/E - Home Runs and Errors Made
ERA-K/9 - Earned Run Average and SO per 9 IP
Total - Team totals for those categories.
Usage - See the note below the grid. 		OPS - On-Base Percentage + Slugging Percentage (a good single number for measuring a player's hitting, avg. is .750 or so)
RA/G & RS/G - Runs scored and allowed per game.
PA/vRH - Plate Appearances overall/PA's vs. Right-handed Pitchers
Catcher Def. - Catcher Defense with each catcher's Stolen Bases, Caught Stealings, and Passed Balls allowed.
G/S/vB or G/S/vP - Links to the player's 2009 gamelogs, splits, or career batter vs. pitcher results
vLH/vRH - OPS vs. left-handed pitchers and vs. right-handed pitchers
Hm or Rd, Home or Road - OPS or OPS allowed in home or road games.
OF G: LF / CF / RF - A - Outfielders with the games played by position and their total number of assists
vs LHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against left-handed batters
vs RHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against right-handed batters
HR/SB/CS - Pitcher's Home Runs, Stolen Bases and Caught Stealings allowed

MLB Best, Middle, Worst

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

 RS/G

NYY  5.73

FLA  4.59

SEA  3.77

 RA/G

LAD  3.78

TBR  4.74

WSN  5.96

 BA

J. Bartlett  .373

M. Cuddyer  .275

C. Young  .182

 OBP

K. Youkilis  .470

N. Morgan  .346

D. Navarro  .231

 SLG

A. Pujols  .682

O. Hudson  .444

J. Kendall  .265

 OPS

A. Pujols  1.137

A. LaRoche  .792

D. Navarro  .528

 ERA

Z. Greinke  1.55

J. Marquis  4.10

F. Carmona  7.42

 K/9IP

J. Verlander  11.29

G. Meche  6.59

J. Pineiro  3.71

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

Twins Batters (4.86 RS/G) vs. Athletics Pitchers (4.75 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 55.Outman*
G/S/vB		 49.Anderson*
G/S/vB		 40.Bailey
G/S/vB		 56.Breslow*
G/S/vB		 53.Cahill
G/S/vB		 44.Casilla
G/S/vB		 59.Gonzalez
G/S/vB		 54.Mazzaro
G/S/vB		 36.Springer
G/S/vB		 48.Wuertz
G/S/vB		 31.Ziegler
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
32.Buscher* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 88/78 .205/.330/.301/.631 .744/.615 .683 45/.548 0/0 1/0
25.Casilla# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 118/77 .185/.248/.231/.479 .338/.557 .583 26/.641 2/0 0/4
24.Crede G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 170/118 .237/.300/.461/.761 .718/.779 .728 79/.805 0/0 9/1
5.Cuddyer G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 4/.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 220/162 .275/.359/.503/.862 .905/.846 .729 93/.963 4/1 9/3
22.Gomez G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 128/83 .224/.283/.302/.585 .517/.622 .604 70/.583 4/3 0/0
23.Harris G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 5/1.400 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 160/99 .284/.331/.405/.737 .695/.763 .526 91/.730 0/0 3/1
16.Kubel* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 198/149 .304/.359/.503/.861 .449/.995 .716 87/.847 0/0 7/0
7.Mauer* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/.733 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/4.000 149/92 .410/.497/.795/1.292 .990/1.475 1.058 111/1.253 0/1 12/0
33.Morneau* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 6/1.166 ··· ··· 1/5.000 ··· 1/2.000 256/164 .335/.414/.628/1.043 1.117/.993 .914 117/1.115 0/0 15/1
55.Redmond G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/1.500 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· 1/no AB 73/50 .254/.315/.313/.629 .791/.557 .667 30/.679 0/0 0/0
2.Span* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 258/176 .300/.389/.396/.785 .942/.712 .694 117/.842 12/4 4/1
20.Tolbert# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 94/69 .177/.258/.241/.499 .631/.451 .550 72/.496 3/0 1/1
21.Young G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 3/1.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 128/86 .233/.273/.267/.540 .440/.589 .743 41/.271 2/2 1/2
IP 53.2 54.1 36.1 22.2 66.1 20.1 11.0 13.2 20.1 26.1 23.2 TOTAL .272/.347/.426/.773 .757/.780 .726 .807 32/12 62/21
ERA-K/9 3.02/7.0 4.97/5.1 1.98/10.9 4.76/7.5 4.21/4.3 5.75/6.7 4.91/7.4 0.00/3.3 6.64/10.2 2.39/8.6 4.18/5.7 4.22/6.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 221/.211 238/.286 145/.159 92/.208 285/.265 93/.247 51/.279 51/.170 100/.333 99/.180 108/.313 .263
OPS .646 .812 .491 .673 .811 .801 .702 .406 .912 .545 .780 .735
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 50/.393 74/.914 63/.663 46/.568 138/.990 39/.800 29/.894 23/.270 44/1.167 35/.450 52/.939 .789
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 171/.723 164/.766 82/.361 46/.765 147/.646 54/.801 22/.439 28/.500 56/.729 64/.597 56/.637 .704
Home 96/.668 101/.767 57/.353 48/.695 170/.769 28/.601 25/.518 27/.370 48/.681 42/.145 59/.864
Last 28d days 126/.517 117/.828 66/.709 43/.525 141/.767 49/1.260 51/.702 51/.406 35/1.267 38/.642 48/.833
HR/SB/CS 7/1/0 10/4/0 3/0/0 3/1/2 9/7/6 4/2/0 0/0/0 0/1/0 4/2/0 1/1/2 1/0/0 55/25/12
Usage ····X··· ···X···· XX··o··X oo···oXo ·X····X· ···o··X· ··X····· X····X·· ··o····· o··oo··X ·o···X··
Athletics Batters (4.45 RS/G) vs. Twins Pitchers (4.78 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 51.Swarzak
G/S/vB		 18.Ayala
G/S/vB		 28.Crain
G/S/vB		 39.Dickey
G/S/vB		 54.Guerrier
G/S/vB		 60.Henn*
G/S/vB		 50.Mijares*
G/S/vB		 36.Nathan
G/S/vB		 PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
18.Cabrera G/S/vP ··· ··· 8/1.250 10/1.600 10/.633 1/3.000 1/.000 15/.134 249/169 .236/.286/.302/.588 .466/.642 .636 113/.660 2/3 2/8
7.Crosby G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 8/.750 13/1.212 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 6/.334 148/93 .198/.299/.302/.601 .792/.487 .740 72/.439 2/0 2/5
57.Cunningham G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 45/33 .163/.200/.279/.479 .523/.463 .625 45/.479 0/0 1/1
32.Cust* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 6/.500 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 214/137 .239/.336/.418/.755 .641/.819 .803 92/.640 1/0 9/1
11.Davis G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/2.000 1/2.000 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 63/28 .211/.286/.246/.531 .504/.566 .464 35/.567 6/3 0/0
16.Giambi* G/S/vP ··· ··· 4/1.000 2/.500 5/.400 ··· ··· 5/.650 221/142 .217/.353/.389/.742 .894/.651 .829 105/.802 0/0 8/3
22.Hannahan* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 3/.333 ··· ··· ··· ··· 85/68 .173/.262/.280/.542 .235/.626 .731 63/.502 0/0 1/0
5.Holliday G/S/vP ··· 5/.600 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 234/153 .287/.385/.465/.850 .716/.919 .831 110/1.075 4/1 8/0
29.Kennedy* G/S/vP ··· 3/.666 5/1.100 14/.972 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 5/1.200 124/82 .339/.410/.532/.942 .433/1.202 .969 117/.966 6/2 4/6
2.Petit G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 29/16 .241/.241/.276/.517 .615/.438 .000 9/.444 0/0 0/1
35.Powell# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 53/37 .213/.283/.426/.709 .607/.752 .715 20/1.017 0/0 2/2
8.Suzuki G/S/vP ··· ··· 3/1.667 3/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 210/143 .280/.325/.394/.719 .713/.722 .686 92/.575 1/1 2/1
15.Sweeney* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· 5/1.400 2/1.000 ··· ··· 2/.000 215/146 .246/.313/.319/.632 .510/.688 .466 81/.573 4/2 2/1
IP 17.0 25.0 17.1 34.2 27.0 7.2 18.0 21.2 TOTAL .240/.317/.363/.679 .602/.718 .695 .714 29/14 46/37
ERA-K/9 4.76/4.8 3.96/5.4 7.27/6.8 2.86/6.5 3.33/6.7 3.52/5.8 2.50/7.0 2.08/10.0 4.64/6.3

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 74/.279 109/.330 78/.273 152/.254 102/.181 31/.231 77/.235 83/.192 .272
OPS .779 .873 .848 .767 .554 .669 .683 .549 .777
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 31/.739 36/1.260 25/1.610 61/.573 34/.456 14/1.044 31/.379 40/.705 .801
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 43/.808 73/.675 53/.508 91/.895 68/.605 17/.312 46/.888 43/.406 .760
Road / 32/.587 32/.841 76/.633 42/.272 12/.962 39/.692 27/.930
Last 28d days 74/.779 44/.805 43/1.080 71/.546 35/.572 31/.669 51/.684 41/.481
HR/SB/CS 3/0/0 2/3/1 3/1/1 5/1/1 4/2/1 0/1/1 2/1/0 2/2/0 76/40/16
Usage ····X··· oo··X··· X·o·X··· X···X··· ··o··o·X ·X·X···o o·o··X·X ··X··X·o

Usage -- each character represents the number of pitches thrown by the pitcher for yesterday, two days ago, three days ago, ...., up to eight days ago:
· - did not pitch; o - less than 16 pitches; X - at least 16 pitches (the median relief outing)
An Example ( ·X···o·X ): Yesterday off, 16 or more pitches, three days off, less than 16 pitches, day off, 16 or more pitches (8 days ago). Yesterday is in bold for improved scanning.